From princess to pumped: Eating healthier
Meet Hayley. Hayley is the Miss B.C. Ambassador. Hayley is also on mission to win a bet against a fellow classmate. The stakes: eternal glory and her pride. Follow Hayley as she ditches the crown to master the chin-up.
By Hayley Woodin [Contributor]
I am going to come clean and start by saying that I have not quite met last week’s goal of losing some weight in order to give my poor little arms a break.
In fact, I’ve come nowhere close.
But that doesn’t mean my cardio efforts haven’t been paying off: I’m getting toned, and I feel great.
Eating healthy has also become more of a priority since my bold declarative statement that I was going to lose over a-pound-a-day within a week.
Let me say, fruits and veggies are your friends. And once you quit eating junk and loading up on carbs for a couple of days, you miraculously stop craving them and begin craving nature’s goodies.
After falling into a more scheduled workout routine, you also begin to crave the exercise.
No word of a lie, there have been days when I can’t wait to get home in order to pick up my weights and begin pumping up my guns.
That’s right, my guns.
I have moved up and I am now doing my routine curl & press with 10 pound weights, and the results are showing.
I still have my eyes on the prize and the end goal of being able to perform a couple of pull-ups and show up my competitor.
However, regardless of the event’s outcome, and even though this may sound like a sappy consolation in the event that I don’t win, I have made strides towards a healthier lifestyle, and that in itself is a win for someone who hadn’t exercised prior to the competition.
I am still going to give him a run for his money, though.
Have you bought your tickets yet? The gun show goes down in less than two weeks.
Next step, working on the actual chin-ups.
